Jan 15, 2012

The Mexican Drug Wars

-- From CNN

For most of us, Mexico is reduced several times a week to a sickening barrage of horror flick headlines. Thirty-five bodies left on the freeway during rush-hour in a major tourist city. A person's face sewn onto a soccer ball. Bodies found stuffed in barrels of acid. Heads sent rolling onto busy nightclub dance floors.

What could explain such savagery?

Traffickers don't have a political or religious ideology like al Qaeda.

The answer, some experts say, is a number. Something like $39 billion.

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2 Comment?:

Byron said...

We want to buy drugs & sell guns. So, we put our blinders on & pretend that this is happening in another country & has nothing to do with us; just as we want to pretend that the workers at the factory that makes our computers didn't just threaten mass suicide, & even if they did, its in another country & doesn't have anything to do with us.

chuck said...

Jesus what a mess.